Instinct Quotes

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Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope. — Michel Houellebecq
There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything.… — Peter Benchley
Look, Chief, you can't go off half-cocked looking for vengeance against a fish. That shark isn't evil. It's not a murderer. It's just obeying its… — Peter Benchley
Trust your instincts, trust your judgment. — Melissa Marr
There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis. — Malcolm Gladwell
--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any… — Thomas Hardy
Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome. It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled that… — Lauren Oliver
I make it a policy not to second-guess my instincts. Life's more fun that way. ~Train Heartnet — Kentaro Yabuki
Morals â€” all correct moral laws â€” derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level. — Robert A. Heinlein
He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires. — Wendell Berry
His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had… — Victor Hugo
To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
All life is rife with possibilities. Seeds have possibilities, but all their tomorrows are caught by the patterning of their life cycle. Animals have possibilities… — Patricia Briggs
People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they… — Ayn Rand
That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and… — H P Lovecraft
...I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right out of a… — Dennis Lehane
Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you. — David Gemmell
there's only one thing i know for certain anymore." he turned, his eyes a clear black. "that i would do anything for you, even if… — Becca Fitzpatrick
And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first! — Susan Kay

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